Boswell, H. James. American Blue Book Western Washington. Seattle, Lowman and
Hanford Co., 1922. p. 55.

WILLIAM MARTIN, of the firm of Martin & Martin, of Seattle, is one of the
oldest and best known lawyers in Washington, a man of strong intellectuality
and broad vision.  Mr. Martin is a native of Illinois and was born in 1864.
As a youth he attended public school and following this entered the University
of Wisconsin, graduating in 1889 with the degree of Bachelor of Letters, and
with the LL. B. degree in 1890.  He was admitted to the bar the same year.  In
1890 he located in Seattle and shortly afterwards opened his offices in the
city,  Since then his success as a member of the bar has advanced rapidly
until today he is one of the best known attorneys in the northwest, and enjoys
a practice that is large and representative.  A man of broad vision, the
splendid standard which he set for himself in early life has won for him the
esteem and respect of bench and bar.  The trial of a case with him is an
appeal to a higher power, and though he invariably conducts his cause with
every right of his client rigidly maintained, it is at all times with courtesy
for opposing counsel.  While an uncompromising foe, he always meets his
opponents in the open, and his methods are strictly judicial, for he is ever
careful to conform his practice to the highest professional ethics.

Submitted by: Judy Bivens

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